Note that by doing so, you might have issues if using C++ gdal dependencies built with the new ABI, or if using GDAL in a C++ software built with the new ABI. So update to FileGDB API 1.5 GCC51 packages is strongly recommended.

Testing the driver

To test if the driver is been loaded, make sure that the path to ogr_FileGDB.dll is defined with the GDAL_DRIVER_PATH environmenet variable and FileGDBAPI.dll is found in your path, and then execute the following (look for "FileGDB" in the results):